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Don't know the answer, but I'm cross-posting this to the Win98 General
group, since this one gets very little traffic. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Jerry Bank" wrote in message .. . I would like to set up a dummy printer that will print to a file. I know that I can specify the port at "FILE:", which will create a file on the disc. However, I don't want to have to respecify the file name each time. Is there a way to have it go to the same file each time. Someone suggested using adding a port and specifying "local port"', however I don't seem to know the syntax for doing that. When I specify "local port" it asks for the port name, and I don't know what to put. I tried putting in the file name, but that get rejected. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Jerry Bank Trenton, New Jersey Music is the language of the gods. |
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In article , "Gary S. Terhune"
none says... Don't know the answer, but I'm cross-posting this to the Win98 General group, since this one gets very little traffic. Thanks. -- Jerry Bank Trenton, New Jersey Music is the language of the gods. |
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Just to reiterate, your original post was:
I would like to set up a dummy printer that will print to a file. I know that I can specify the port at "FILE:", which will create a file on the disc. However, I don't want to have to respecify the file name each time. Is there a way to have it go to the same file each time. Someone suggested using adding a port and specifying "local port"', however I don't seem to know the syntax for doing that. When I specify "local port" it asks for the port name, and I don't know what to put. I tried putting in the file name, but that get rejected. Any suggestions? Thanks. "Jerry Bank" wrote in message .. . In article , "Gary S. Terhune" none says... Don't know the answer, but I'm cross-posting this to the Win98 General group, since this one gets very little traffic. Thanks. -- Jerry Bank Trenton, New Jersey Music is the language of the gods. |
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http://www.filedudes.com/Miraplacid_...load-8938.html
""Miraplacid Text Driver 4.4 for Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 extracts text from any printable documents. After installation on your PC, Miraplacid Text Driver appears as a new printer in your system. When document is printed, Miraplacid Text Driver opens a dialog with Preview Window. You can save resulting text to disk, upload to FTP or HTTP server,or print them to a real printer or send to Clipboard. You can save the extracted information as plain, formatted text or as XML for future processing in all installed codepages and Unicode. Miraplacid Text Driver 4.4 adds icon to desktop. All the documents you drag and drop to this icon will be printed behind the scenes and processed by Miraplacid Text Driver. Turn "Auto Save Mode" on if you want Miraplacid Text Driver to save all the extracted text to a file without waiting for your input. If you want every document to be saved to an individual file, add {{DATE}}, {{TIME}}, {{IDENTITY}}, {{PAGE}} or {{JOB}} to the file name or path. They will be replaced with current date, time, some unique number, page number and print job id respectively. With "Redirect" option, you can print original print job to your physical printer at the time of extracting text."" This might do what you want, I had the link lying around have several band printers arent directly supported in win98 -- -- -- -- -- -- Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://www.safer-networking.org AVG free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/ Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... Just to reiterate, your original post was: I would like to set up a dummy printer that will print to a file. I know that I can specify the port at "FILE:", which will create a file on the disc. However, I don't want to have to respecify the file name each time. Is there a way to have it go to the same file each time. Someone suggested using adding a port and specifying "local port"', however I don't seem to know the syntax for doing that. When I specify "local port" it asks for the port name, and I don't know what to put. I tried putting in the file name, but that get rejected. Any suggestions? Thanks. "Jerry Bank" wrote in message .. . In article , "Gary S. Terhune" none says... Don't know the answer, but I'm cross-posting this to the Win98 General group, since this one gets very little traffic. Thanks. -- Jerry Bank Trenton, New Jersey Music is the language of the gods. |
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You requirement is not quite clear. Does the file you are creating have to
be a print file for a particular type of printer? This would a file that you then transfer to another machine that has that type of printer attached, and copy to that printer in order to print it. Or are you trying to use a print procedure to create a certain document type, such as plain text or postscript or PDF? -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... Just to reiterate, your original post was: I would like to set up a dummy printer that will print to a file. I know that I can specify the port at "FILE:", which will create a file on the disc. However, I don't want to have to respecify the file name each time. Is there a way to have it go to the same file each time. Someone suggested using adding a port and specifying "local port"', however I don't seem to know the syntax for doing that. When I specify "local port" it asks for the port name, and I don't know what to put. I tried putting in the file name, but that get rejected. Any suggestions? Thanks. "Jerry Bank" wrote in message .. . In article , "Gary S. Terhune" none says... Don't know the answer, but I'm cross-posting this to the Win98 General group, since this one gets very little traffic. Thanks. -- Jerry Bank Trenton, New Jersey Music is the language of the gods. |
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The man needs to print to file (a PRN file, I think, not text file) from a
DOS app, something that he can then send to the printer from Windows. Generic Text to File won't help. Unfortunately, Jerry knows more about it than I or most others here do. Hey, Jerry... I have a couple of old dot matrix printers... or maybe my Dad has them now. Might be the simplest solution to find a used one, not that it's that simple, g. You still have an LPT port? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "RobertVA" wrote in message ... Jerry Bank wrote: In article , says... You requirement is not quite clear. Does the file you are creating have to be a print file for a particular type of printer? This would a file that you then transfer to another machine that has that type of printer attached, and copy to that printer in order to print it. Or are you trying to use a print procedure to create a certain document type, such as plain text or postscript or PDF? Let me explain precisely what I am trying to do. I have an ancient dos program that I use to do accounting for a very small business. I would like to continue using it. However, while it was able to print its reports to my old dot-matrix printer, it really can't handle my current laser printer. The program itself only prints to lpt1. Previously I used the simple program prn2dos, which sent the printing to a file, which I then edited and printed out in Windows. Since upgrading my computer it no longer works. I have been trying to find a way to do this task. I did find a program called dos2usb, but it only works erratically. I would very much appreciate any suggestions as to how I can solve this problem. Thanks. Have your tried installing the Generic Text to file "printer" You would only need to click a file name and press the "Enter" key when the file name dialog appears. |
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What, exactly, do you mean when you say you "upgraded" your computer.
Upgraded it from what to what? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Jerry Bank" wrote in message .. . In article , says... You requirement is not quite clear. Does the file you are creating have to be a print file for a particular type of printer? This would a file that you then transfer to another machine that has that type of printer attached, and copy to that printer in order to print it. Or are you trying to use a print procedure to create a certain document type, such as plain text or postscript or PDF? Let me explain precisely what I am trying to do. I have an ancient dos program that I use to do accounting for a very small business. I would like to continue using it. However, while it was able to print its reports to my old dot-matrix printer, it really can't handle my current laser printer. The program itself only prints to lpt1. Previously I used the simple program prn2dos, which sent the printing to a file, which I then edited and printed out in Windows. Since upgrading my computer it no longer works. I have been trying to find a way to do this task. I did find a program called dos2usb, but it only works erratically. I would very much appreciate any suggestions as to how I can solve this problem. Thanks. -- Jerry Bank Trenton, New Jersey Music is the language of the gods. |
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I don't know about the OP's laser printer, but all of my printers here have the
option "Print to file" which does save it as a .prn file. -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... The man needs to print to file (a PRN file, I think, not text file) from a DOS app, something that he can then send to the printer from Windows. Generic Text to File won't help. Unfortunately, Jerry knows more about it than I or most others here do. Hey, Jerry... I have a couple of old dot matrix printers... or maybe my Dad has them now. Might be the simplest solution to find a used one, not that it's that simple, g. You still have an LPT port? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "RobertVA" wrote in message ... Jerry Bank wrote: In article , says... You requirement is not quite clear. Does the file you are creating have to be a print file for a particular type of printer? This would a file that you then transfer to another machine that has that type of printer attached, and copy to that printer in order to print it. Or are you trying to use a print procedure to create a certain document type, such as plain text or postscript or PDF? Let me explain precisely what I am trying to do. I have an ancient dos program that I use to do accounting for a very small business. I would like to continue using it. However, while it was able to print its reports to my old dot-matrix printer, it really can't handle my current laser printer. The program itself only prints to lpt1. Previously I used the simple program prn2dos, which sent the printing to a file, which I then edited and printed out in Windows. Since upgrading my computer it no longer works. I have been trying to find a way to do this task. I did find a program called dos2usb, but it only works erratically. I would very much appreciate any suggestions as to how I can solve this problem. Thanks. Have your tried installing the Generic Text to file "printer" You would only need to click a file name and press the "Enter" key when the file name dialog appears. |
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